About the IAPP

Panagiota Kelali is a lawyer/legal advisor focusing on data protection, civil law and intellectual property law issues. She is admitted to practice in Athens, Greece, New York, NY, USA and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, USA.

She is currently an Adjunct Professor of The John Marshall Law School’s Center for Intellectual Property, Information and Privacy Law where she teaches courses on international privacy law, social media law and current topics in information technology and privacy law. Prior to her returning to private practice, Panagiota Kelali was the Associate Director of The John Marshall Law School’s Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law where she oversaw all aspects of the center’s degree programs as well as extra-curricular and non-curricular programs.

She holds a JD from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), a D.E.S.S.(LL.M.) degree in European Community Law from the University Jean Moulin, Lyon III (France), an LL.M degree in Information Technology and Privacy Law as well as an LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law from the John Marshall Law School in Chicago(U.S.A.). She has also been a Non-resident Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.